The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-02

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mcnts Of Christian, and give e. imony
n this cause ON trial. Uncovaf your
heads, put your hand ON the old family
Bible, from which they used 70 read
the promises, and promise IN the presence
Of high Heaven that you will tell
the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth. With what you
have seen with your own eyes, and from
what you have heard with your own ears,
is there power in this Gospel to give calm
ness and triumph in the last exigencyf
The response comes from all sides, from
young and old, and middle-aged:
We are witnesses.
You see, my friends, have not put be-
fore you an abstraction, or . chimera, or
any thing like guess work. Ipresent you
affidavits of the best men and women, liv.
ing or dead. Two witnesses in court will
establish . fact. Here are not two wit
nesses, but thousands Of witnesses-0n
earth millions of witnesses, and in Heaven
. great multitude Of witnesses that no
man can number, testifying that there is
power in this religion to convert the soul,
to give comfort in trouble and to afford
compOsure in the last hour.
II ten men should come to you when you
are sick with appalling sickness, and say
they bad the same sickness, and took o
certain medicine and it cured them, you
would probably take it. Now suppose ten
other men should come up and say:
eve don't believe there il any thing in
that medicine"
"Well," say have you ever tried it,"
"No. never tried it. but don't believe
there is any thing in it."
OF course you discredit their testimony.
The skeptic may come and say:
"There is no power in your religion"
"Have you ever tried it,"
mo, no."
"Then, avaunt!"
Let mo take the testimony of the millions
of souls that have been converted to God,
and comforted in trial, and solaced in the
last hour. We will take their testimony
as they cry:
We are Witnessed
Some time ago Prof. Henry, of Washing.
ton, discovered a new star, and the tidings
spread by submarine telegram, and all the
observatories of Europe were watching for
that new star. Oh, nearer, looking ont
through the darkness of thy soul, cansf
thou see bright light beaming on thee:
"Where?" you say, "where? How can
find it,"
Look along by the line of the cross Of the
Son of God. Do you not see him trembling
with oil tenderness and beaming with all
hope? It is the Star of Bethlehem.
Deep horror then nv vitals froze.
Death struck, ceased the tide to stem,
When suddenly star arose.
1t was the Star Of Bethlehem.
Oh, hearer, get your eye on It. It Is
easier for you now to become Christians
than it is to stay away from Christ and
Heaven. When Nine. Sontag began her
musical career she was Kissed Of the stage
at Vienna by the friends of her rival,
Amelia Steininger, who had already be-
gun to decline through her dissipation.
Years passed on, and one day Mime. Son.
tag, in her glory, was riding through the
streets of Berlin, when she saw a little
child leading . blind woman, and she
said:
"Come here, my little child, come here.
Who is that you are leading by the hand:"
And the little child replied:
"That's my mother; that's Amelia Stein.
niger. She used to be a great singer, but
she lost her voice, and she cried so much
about it that she lost her eyesight."
~'U1Ve my love 10 n6T, S8lu Mfne. OOH.
tag, ''and tell her an old acquaintance will
call on her this afternoon"
The next week in Berlin a vast Assem-.
blage gathered at a benefit for that poor
blind woman, and it was said that Nine.
Sontag sang that night as she had
never sung before. And she took
skilled oculist, who in vain tried to
give eyesight to the poor blind
woman. Until the day Of Amelia Stein
inger's death, Nine. Sontag took care Of
her, and her daughter after her. That
was what the queen of song did former
enemy.
But, oh, hear a more thrilling story still.
Blind, immortal, poor and lost, thou who,
when the world and Christ were rivals for
thy heart, didst hiss thy Lord away
Christ comes now to give thee sight, to
give thee q home, to give thee Heaven.
With more than a Sontag's generosity he
comes now to meet your need. With more
than Sontag's music he comes TO plead
for thy deliverance.